BBFileScoutBrowsing the file system of your BB - copy, move, rename, (un)zip or delete files & directories and much more!

I would like to use the opportunity to present an application that I have written for the all BB with OS 4.3 or higher (sorry no support for 4.2.1 devices) [successfully tested (by other users and myself) with 8110, 8310, 8330, 8800, 8820, 8830, 9000 & 9500].

Core Features

BBFileScout allows you to browse the file system of your BB (including hidden files)

BBFileScout allows you to open files (like ini, xml, etc.) as plain text, so you are able to edit, mark, copy & paste text fragments of these files that normally can't be opened with your Blackberry. This can become very valuable when you receive eMail attachments that are not native supported by your Blackberry

With BBFileScout you can delete pre installed wallpapers, videos and ringtones in order to free memory on your device*** - but please note, that once they are deleted the only way to get them back is to hard reset your device!

More to come...

Some files on a BB devices have some sort of DRM (DigitalRightsManagement). Cause of this it could be, that the files can not be copied, moved. BBFileScout will give you a warning information once you try to copy a file that have 'encrypted content' - BBFileScout will mark these files with a "lock" symbol. Additionally it could be the case, that even deleting of this content is not possible.

BBFileScout is pay-what-you-want: if you find the application useful day by day and you want that I am able to invest more of my time into the development of this application, then please be so kind and send me a little donation - details at the BBFileScout Homepage - TIA.

Copy complete directory structures (including all it's content) in the same way as single files can be copied

Move complete directory structures (including all it's content) in the same way as single files can be moved

Delete directories with all its content (recursive)*

Unpack ZIP-Archives (including directory structures)

Create a ZIP-Archive from a selected file

Create a ZIP-Archive from a selected directory (including all it's content/recursive)

Opening Media-Files**:

Audio: W4A|AAC|MP3|WAV|AU3|MID|WMA

Video: MPEG|AVI|MP4|3GP

Image: JPG|PNG|GIF|TIFF|SVG|BMP

Office (requires installed "Office to go"): DOC|XLS|PPT

Other: TXT|HTML

Opening custom registered files:

BBFileScout allows you to associate own file extensions with custom applications (like you might know it from other OS)

Simply enter the extension [without '.' (dot)] in the BBFileScout-Options

Once such an associations is configured (via BBFileScout options) you could open any file type with any application that you have registered****

Opening Files in a SimpleTextViewer:

You can open small files (smaller then 250KiB) in plain text mode - This enables you to open XML's, INI's or any kind of script files (or any other files) in your BlackBerry

Once the file is opened, you can mark/select text and copy it into the clipboard (to use it where ever you like or need it)

Opening Files in a SimpleTextEditor:

Once it's enabled in the options you can edit the text files that you have opened in the SimpleTextEditor. But BBFileScout is still far away from becoming a fully functional text editor (that might change in further releases).

by default all files will be open with UTF-8 character encoding

Re-read file with different encodings:

Re-read file with 'UTF-8' encoding

Re-read file with 'ISO-8859-1' encoding

Re-read file with 'UTF-16BE' encoding

Re-read file with 'US-ASCII' encoding

Save File

Save File as...

both 'save' functions will use UTF-8 encoding

Options:

Confirm Exit of BBFileScout

Confirm Delete of files & directories

Show hidden files & directories

Sort directory content [will separate directories and files from each other and sort them by name (case insensitive)]

Allow editing in SimpleTextViewer

Custom file associations

Key short cuts:

[C|V]: (C)opy to Clipboard [store the actual selected file/dir on the Stack]

[O|P]: (P)aste from Clipboard [copy the current file on the stack to the current directory]

[M]: (M)ove from Clipboard [move the current file on the stack to the current directory]

* Deleting or renaming files from your Blackberry can harm the core functionality of the device - use this function at your own risk!

** Not all media types might be supported by your device

*** Some files on a Blackberry device are marked as "BuildIn" - unfortunately most of the time it's not possible for BBFileScout to delete this type of files.

**** The 3'rd party application itself have to support to be started with an file as additional command line parameter (this is quite usual in other OS's but I do not know much about 3'rd party Blackberry applications right now) - It's e.g. successfully tested with 'RepliGo Reader' (and 'pdf' as custom file association)

License/Price
BBFileSout is offered on a 'pay-what-you-want' base - This means that the software that you can download is fully functional. It comes without any functional restrictions or evil things like a nag-screen. If you are going to use this application then please be so fair and send me a donation - what ever you think the application is worth and of course what ever you can (or will) afford to pay.

Please Note: Some files on a BB devices have some sort of DRM (DigitalRightsManagement). Cause of this it could be, that the files can not be copied, moved. BBFileScout will give you a warning information once you try to copy a file that have 'encrypted content' - BBFileScout will mark these files with a "lock" symbol. Additionally it could be the case, that even deleting of this content is not possible.

Even if I own a Storm myself there is no extra TouchScreen support (yet) - this means it will work on a Strom like on any other BB-Device.

Some parts/files in the '/system' and '/store' folders might reappear after a battery pull - The device seams to auto restore some of the files.

Once again: Deleting or renaming files from your Blackberry can harm the core functionality of the device - use this function at your own risk! - Don't blame me, if you have bricked your BB.